The other day me and the girlfriend finished up Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD. While at first the clarity of the image was distracting (I personally found myself stunned by the smoothness of Hayden Pantierre's skin), as the series went along, I found something a lot more distracting.
The is an eerie similarity between Splat Pack horror Director Eli Roth and Zachary Quinto who plays Sylar the homicidal empath on the show.
I'm fully aware that only a real nerd would be distracted by this. I'm fully aware because my girlfriend was kind enough to inform me of this dismal fact when I presented her with the evidence.
Here's a side by side comparison.
Sure it's not identical, but it drives me nuts.
Why are farts so funny?
I was reading this article about a girl on youtube who goes by the screen name Peteuse , and who posts videos of herself and her sister farting. The videos are fairly straight forward. They all seem to feature her walking in front of the camera. Farting. Then laughing uncontrollably.
Which by itself isn't funny. Until you look at how many views she's gotten - TONS! Now I'm hip to the oddness of the internet. And I can see how a kinda cute girl farting would attract a fanbase of loyal weirdos. But these are the type of numbers that get you a call from a Jimmy Kimmel Show producer. It's truly astonishing to me.
Then there's the weirdness that only youtube comments can have.
Usually comments are pretty fucking mean. Tons of misogyny and racism. Lots of angry people out there. (As a some what interesting sidenote, I once looked up Cat Stevens and was totally digging him doing his 70's thing when a realized the comments section was filled with anti-Islamic rhetoric that went on for pages and pages.There was a holy war taking place in the comments section of youtube of all places! But I digress.)These comments were really fucking odd - even by youtube standards.
The comments are bursting at the seams with a bunch of weirdo perverts who wish they could smell her farts and telling this chick how super hot she is and how they'd love to have a girlfriend like her and yadda-yadda-yadda. In case you're curious about what's got these creeps so worked up, take a look at this video, which is more or less what all her videos are.
This video has over 150,000 views.
Weird.
Weirder still is that this girl is now charging money to view her farting on "a premium" website.
I just don't get it.
But wait there's more...
Anyway, all of this led me to this wikipedia article on a (get this) Vaudevillian Fart Performer known as Le Pétomane which according to the article might translate to “The Fart Maniac“. He was also a stonesman and sculptor.
Well, this was all too much for me, maybe it's just getting late. Or maybe I've read one too many wacky wiki articles but this guy's picture (seen above) is fucking hilarious! This guy is that wacky uncle, who begs you to pull his finger, but with a super cool handlebar mustache.
This guy is comic gold.
I want that poster blown up to door size. I want that photo to be reprinted onto T-shirts and issued to middle school kids as replacements to Slipknot and Tupac shirts. This man is a real counter cultural hero. He is the stuff legends are made of.
The Legacy section of the article is amazing! Who knew that, “Johnny Depp has mentioned frequently in interviews that he wishes to portray Pujol in a film”?
Click here for the wiki article!
Click here for Peteuse's youtube page!
Enjoy!
Let me know what you think!
I just found and watched this online. So it looks like some of the action sequences in the new Batman movie have been shot in IMAX. Which is really cool! As far as I know this is a first.
Plenty of movies have been released in IMAX and looked pretty good. Superman Returns was released in 3D Digital IMAX, but that was shot with the Genesis Camera which I think is 2k resolution. Translated from nerd speak, that means that Superman was only a smidge better than film in terms of max resolution. But IMAX is a whole other beast.
It's twice as large as traditional film and by nature will be ultra clear. In an age of overly loud soundtracks that make up for a lack of a visual clarity there will be this summer blockbuster that will cause your puny human head to explode. Sure, there's an argument against this type of filmmaking. That pummeling and audience with garish explosions, and obscenely fast editing does nothing but confuse them.
But this is Batman. And I love Batman. This isn't robot cars from outer space quietly living amongst us and waging an intergalactic war on our planet. This is Bruce fucking Wayne ridding his beloved gotham of shitbag criminals by striking fear into their weak, and inferior hearts.
So here's to Christopher Nolan's “The Dark Knight,” where the Bat will be pitted against the Joker: things are gonna get crazy this summer.
Except it's all on XBox Live.
I should say that I'm not really the most disciplined individual around, so when something as awesome as COD4 (as us geeks refer to it) comes along there's really nothing else that can even compete. I'm not even playing the single player campaign mode very much. It's all about multiplayer. The glory of sniping strangers is the best thing going right now. Which is pretty lame.
Because I'm not even that good at this game. I kinda suck. I average the top three or four on Team Deathmatch. And on free for all I'm usually in the top 5. Although I'm currently only level 38 and I have had the game for a week, I feel like I see little “+10's” when I close my eyes. I have a callous left thumb from “holding my breath” to steady long range sniper shots.
And yet this isn't really that serious. I can turn it off. I just don't want to. COD4 is probably the best shooter I've played in a looong time. I've heard a lot of complaints (mostly through the Comm. system on xbox live) about how unbalanced the game is, and how there are major issues with camping. But I dunno, for my money I'd rather be playing COD4 than Halo 3, which I thought was way too short and way too overrated.
In case you aren't hip to all this here's a little video that encapsulates the awesomeness of the game.
COD4 does so many things right that it's next to impossible to wrestle that controller out of your hand. The sound design is fantastic and while I only have have stereo sound, the directional sound has helped me catch and a would-be-from-behind-assassin many a time. It's visually one of my favorite games, it's focusing when shooting down the sight of your weapon and its grainy textures make it a sensory pleasure. It's Class based multiplayer is great and I'm always tweaking stuff for the best equipped soldier for a particular environment.
And all of this is contributing to email and phone calls and blog posts that don't get produced. I'm cranking away on this thing that I get nothing done.
The good news is that lately, I've been really starting to suck, so it's gotten a lot easier to turn off my X-Box. But I'm no quitter so I think I'm gonna go strap on my Draganov and start taking down noobs.
See you on the field, kids!
My gamertag is BURN the FLESH (pretty hardcore, huh? Scaring the shit out of the enemy is half the battle.) Add me to your friends or just let me know what you think!
Okay. First things first. I love comics. I used to read them all the time. I’d study issues of Previews like they were the Torah. I would spend tons of cash on comics every week. And then one day I didn’t.
The main reason I stopped reading comics was simple, they either started to suck or were late. Now maybe I just needed a break. But the when I stopped reading comics. Garth Ennis had just finished up his flawless Preacher run and Kevin Smith was writing Daredevil. And well, I dunno, I guess I just wasn’t as into them as I once was.
But then last month I got it into my head that I wanted to read comics again. So I decided to pick up some trade paperbacks to books that were always tardy as monthlies, The Darkness, Daredevil, some Top Cow Books, etc. (I also picked up Garth Ennis’ “The Boys” - but more on that some other day.)
On a goof I grabbed DMZ. By two guys I had never heard of. Honestly I made the decision based on subject matter. This book has modern warfare, photojournalists, dystopian metropolis’, and gritty artwork! I don’t know why the shelves aren’t stocked with more books like these. I’m 2 issues into a 4 issue trade paperback and I refuse to read another until the next two come in the mail. But as it is right now. I can’t think of a comic book that has made me this excited since the first issue of “Y:The Last Man”. I just hope that this doesn’t run out of stream like the way I feel that book did.
The book does the usual philosophizing of war, but what I really dig about it so far is how it has little to do with gun battles and explosions. It feels like a ‘graphic novel” version of Robert Young Pelton’s World’s Most Dangerous Places. Honest, brash, really fucking intense, it’s by far my favorite comic book to be reading. I thnk I’ll go read issue 3 now.
If you’re into this too email me or comment below.
You can read more about DMZ here.
You can buy the first Trade Paperback DMZ: ON THE GROUND on amazon.com here.
For awhile now I've thought that Chris Cunningham would have the career of a David Lynch or David Cronenberg, but it looks like I'll have to wait on that. The good news is that while Chris is off working on the sequel to Rubber Johnny (just guessing) his style is being used to market a movie that he could have directed.
Exhibit A: The Trailer for "The Work of Chris Cunningham"
I should say that I kind of dig the trailer for The Signal, although I feel like it might be a take on "The Ring" - which I also liked but always think that I didn't.
I don't know why but I feel that someone will say that this guy is abusing his children or being an irresponsible parent... and while I don't know if it's moral or not to (lightly) kick your (or someone else's) kids in the face for laughs, I DO KNOW that it IS good for a light chuckle.
Enjoy!
